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Optisure Risk Partners, based in Manchester, N.H., has hired Reid Sterrett as life practice manager, reporting to Optisure CEO Peter R. Milnes.
Sterrett will be based in Hartford, Conn., and has experience in life, disability and long-term care products and services.
He joins Optisure from an affiliation with Northwestern Mutual, a relationship he began when he took over a 40-year life insurance practice built by his father Rollie Sterrett and uncle Cliff Sterrett. Through this practice, he provided personal, business and estate planning, as well as disability and long-term care planning.
The Arbella Insurance Group, a Quincy, Mass.-based regional property and casualty insurance company, has appointed Karin Martin to assistant vice president in its contact centers.
Reporting to Janet Corcoran, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Martin will oversee the Customer Service and Arbella Service Center units. Additionally, Martin will be responsible for processes, protocols, metrics and standards across all enterprise contact centers.
Martin began her career at Arbella in 1992. She previously served as director of customer service and commercial lines operations, leading multiple areas including policy administration and customer service. Before that, Martin served as director of personal lines operations and customer service.
Established in 1988, the Arbella Insurance Group provides personal and business insurance in Massachusetts and Connecticut and business insurance in Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
Paragon Insurance Holdings LLC (Paragon), an Avon, Conn.-based national multi-line specialty managing general agent, has hired Andrew Petersen to the Paragon executive management team as regional president and executive vice president of reinsurance operations.
In his new role, Petersen will report to Paragon CEO Ron Ganiats.
Prior to joining Paragon, Petersen was chief corporate development officer of Atlas General Holdings LLC, a San Diego, Calif.-based general agency.
Earlier in his career, Petersen also held senior positions at reinsurance intermediaries Guy Carpenter & Company LLC, and Collins, where he focused on workers’ compensation and general agency-based reinsurance placements.
Formed in 2014, Paragon provides opportunities to retail agents, insurance carriers, reinsurers and vendor partners.
Alliant is continuing to expand its presence on the East Coast with its recent hiring of Steve Reisler as vice president.
Reisler will be based in the Fair Haven, N.J., office of Alliant within the company’s Alliant Americas division.
In his new role, he will provide targeted risk management and insurance products to a portfolio of clients throughout the region.
As part of the Alliant team, Reisler will also leverage the company’s presence in the real estate market to provide enhanced risk management to condominium association clients. He will tap into Alliant’s workplace safety and claims management resources for workers’ compensation as well.
Reisler has more than 20 years of property and casualty insurance brokerage experience servicing clients throughout New Jersey and New York. Prior to joining Alliant, he was vice president with a regional insurance brokerage firm.
Alliant Americas provides midsized businesses with targeted insurance, risk management and consulting services. As a middle-market platform with offices throughout the U.S., Alliant Americas delivers a range of products and services that are regionally focused.
Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., Alliant Insurance Services Inc. provides property and casualty, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, surety and financial products and services to clients nationwide, including public entities, tribal nations, healthcare, energy, law firms, real estate, construction and other industry groups.
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro has announced that Deputy Commissioner Mitch Crane ended his service to the state of Delaware, effective Feb. 16, 2018.
Crane served as Navarro’s deputy since the beginning of the Commissioner’s term on Jan. 3, 2017. Crane had been serving as a member of the Industrial Accident Board, but departed that post in order to work with Navarro’s new administration.
Crane previously served the Department of Insurance as regulatory specialist and director of consumer services from 2007 until 2011 under then-Commissioners Matt Denn and Karen Weldin Stewart.
Prior to that, Crane practiced law in Chester County, Penn., and served six years on the county bench.